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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MOTHS Matches Found: 58 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FABLE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it not enough, said the toad, Last Line: Said the moth to the toad. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Fables; Moths; Toads; Allegories A SONG OF THE SEASON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a moth ball Last Line: But out! Subject(s): Animals;environment;insects;moths; Environmental Protection;ecology;conservation;bugs A TWILIGHT MOTH, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the primroses have thought of thee Last Line: And all that world at which my soul hath guessed! Subject(s): Moths ALL FOOLS' CALENDER, by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In january dread the ice Last Line: There'll be nothing to remember. Subject(s): Moths ALL NIGHT HE DANCES, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: To all kinds of tunes Subject(s): Moths; Native Americans; Riddles ANOTHER DEAD MOTH, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the kitchen tiles another dead moth. Subject(s): Moths BOOK-MOTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A moth ate a word. To me it seemed Subject(s): Moths; Riddles BOOK-WORM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A moth ate a word! To me that seemed Last Line: Was none the wiser for the words he had eaten Subject(s): Moths; Riddles BURNT DANCER, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the yellow ring of flame Last Line: O broken guest that may return not %o danse danse mon papillon noir! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Moths CINQUAIN: THE WARNING, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just now, / out of the strange Last Line: So cold? Subject(s): Moths; Supernatural CONFUSION, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: A moth %landed on his hand Subject(s): Moths GAINING WINGS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A twig where clung two soft cocoons Last Line: That free the folded wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Cocoons; Death - Animals; Moths GOLDWING MOTH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A goldwing moth is between the scissors and the ink bottle on the desk Last Line: Manuscripts of the medieval monks. Subject(s): Manuscripts; Moths GREAT MOTH, by ROBERT GITTINGS Poem Source First Line: Visitant to our dumbly human home Last Line: As if with plumes of grace to hover %a spirit took our part Subject(s): Moths GYPSY MOTHS, by SUSAN RONEY-O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: You tell me the females can't fly Last Line: And drop them into oil. %nothing is simple Subject(s): Change; Moths; Nature; Relationships HIBISCUS ON SLEEPING SHORES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say now, fernando, that on that day Subject(s): Seashore; Moths; Beach; Coast; Shore I AM A MOTH, by EUGENIE CATHERINE PAUL Poem Text First Line: I, a moth of pretty things Last Line: Trembles through me in the light. Subject(s): Moths IN THE KITCHEN, LATE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you stumble in the night, out of your room of sleep Last Line: Like a breath in the hairs of your leg. Subject(s): Moths; Night; Bedtime LITTLE DEATHS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every minute to two, another moth Subject(s): Death - Animals; Fish & Fishing; Moths; Anglers LOBOCRASPIS GRISEIFUSA, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the tiny moth that lives on tears Subject(s): Moths LYING AWAKE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This moth caught in the room tonight Last Line: And turn him out toward living. Yet %we don't: we take things as they are Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Moths; Passivity MOSS, RUST, AND MOTHS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Moss rises from the ground Last Line: And stare %and stare at the city lights Subject(s): Insects; Moths; Nature; Wings MOTH, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Full Text First Line: The saffron moth Subject(s): Moths MOTH, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A larval tunneling between pages Last Line: The hunger, the gray dream of with, and, the Subject(s): Insects; Moths; Wings MOTH CHORALE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In switzerland, just one half-timbered floor Last Line: And I'm supposed to concentrate? Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Insects; Moths MOTH IN APRIL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I concentrate, cani I Subject(s): Moths MOTH-EATEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a beautiful garment Last Line: The moth with its blighting steals. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Moths MOTH-SONG, by ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON CORTISSOZ Poem Text First Line: What dost thou here, / thou dusky courtier Last Line: Thorough the night mysteries. Subject(s): Moths MOTH-TERROR, by BENJAMIN DE CASSERES Poem Text First Line: I have killed the moth flying around my night-light Last Line: Night-moth, change-moth, time-moth, eaters of dreams and of me! Subject(s): Moths MOTHS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: She said %while she looped her hair Last Line: Under the gargantuan leaf %patched on her quilt Subject(s): Family Life - India; Moths MOTHS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sees one fluttering across the room Last Line: Out upon the floor beneath silent, gray outspread wings Subject(s): Moths MOTHS, by SEAN O RIORDAIN Poem Source First Line: Delicate sound of a moth; a page turning Last Line: Such fierce attention to their tiny uproar Subject(s): Moths MOTHS, by ANDREW SANT Poem Source First Line: Which come out at night Last Line: Melanodes anthracteria, safe %where early sunlight defines them Subject(s): Moths MOTHS OR MEN?, by RUTH SCOTT DANCER Poem Text First Line: Attracted by the lure of candlelight Last Line: I wonder whether we are moths or men? Subject(s): Moths ON SEEING A DROWNING MOTH, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor little moth! Thy summer sports were done Last Line: Men make their fate, and do not fate obey. Subject(s): Fate; Moths; Destiny PRELUDE TO WINTER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A big young bareheaded woman Subject(s): Moths; Autumn; Fall SPHINX-MOTH AND DADDY LONGLEGS, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening when dark is settling down Last Line: Man, the seeker, seeks himself Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Forests; Hummingbirds; Insects; Moths THE FLAME, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O moth, that yearns for me Last Line: I am thy heaven and hell! Subject(s): Moths THE MOTH, by ABU YAHYA Poem Text First Line: The moth a merry caper Last Line: Upon the carpet, dead. Subject(s): Moths THE MOTH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Say, silent moth Last Line: Be't moth or man. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Moths THE MOTH, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isled in the midnight air Last Line: To her strange tryst. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Moths THE MOTH, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parted from th' eternal presence Last Line: And the light thy only home! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Moths THE MOTH, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dews fall fast, and rosy day Last Line: Follows the fatal light, and in its flame expires. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Moths THE MOTH'S WING, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: They tell me my man is dead Last Line: It is the brush of the moth's wing against my cheek I feel. Subject(s): Death; Moths; Dead, The THE MOTHS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a kind of white moth I don't know Subject(s): Moths THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1582, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The peninsula seen from the hills near bath Last Line: Where, once, there was a peaceful, tropical ocean. Subject(s): Ghosts; Moths; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Supernatural; Illness THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Indians stood on a hill in bath and watched Last Line: Into tomorrow. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge; Moths; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Women; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A grove of deep sycamores drifts into the hudson Last Line: Stepping out of a mountain into winter daylight. Subject(s): Fathers; Holidays; Moths; Solitude; Thanksgiving; Loneliness THE NIGHT MOTHS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night to my mountain porch they came Last Line: Why this rich beauty wandering the night? Subject(s): Moths THE WHITE MOTH, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a leaf rustled, she would start Last Line: "then wrote ""that I had died instead!" Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Moths THE WOOLEN BUG, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In camel's-hair, in heather twill or suede Subject(s): Moths THUNDER MOTH, by MIYOSHI TATSUJI Poem Source First Line: After the thunder Last Line: Higher than the alarm bell %of the fire-tower Subject(s): Moths TO A MOTH SEEN IN WINTER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's first a gloveless hand warm from my pocket Last Line: Who am tasked to save my own a little while. Subject(s): Moths; Winter TO A MOTH THAT DRINKETH OF THE RIPE OCTOBER, by EMILY JANE (DAVIS) PFEIFFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moth belated, sun and zephyr-kist Last Line: Of the inquisitor and tyrant, man. Subject(s): Moths TO FANCY, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE Poem Text First Line: O glorious moth of moody phantasy Last Line: That round the sacred lamp circlest for ever! Subject(s): Moths TROUBLE, FLEET AND LIGHT OF WING, by KIMBERLY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Because I've hung moth-nets, the patio Last Line: Contagious in passion, star. The star is wormwood Subject(s): Houses; Moths WARNING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly away, o white-winged moth! Last Line: You're too slight for love. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Moths WHITE MOTHS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Espaliered / to a radiator grille Subject(s): Moths; Death; Life |
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